{{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''247''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 12th century | found = | now at = State Historical Museum | cite = | size = {{×|15.5|12}} | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = marginalia }}

'''Minuscule 247''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1192 (Soden),<ref name = Gregory1908>{{cite book|last=Gregory|first=Caspar René|author-link=Caspar René Gregory|title=Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament|url=https://archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n67/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=56}}</ref> is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.<ref name = Aland>K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", ''Walter de Gruyter'', Berlin, New York 1994, p. 61</ref> It has marginalia.

== Description ==

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 223 parchment leaves (size {{×|15.5|12}}).<ref name = Aland/> The text is written in one column per page, 26 lines per page.<ref name = Aland/>

The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).<ref name = Gregory/>

It contains the tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel, Prolegomena, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), Synaxarion, and Menologion.<ref name = Scrivener>{{Cite book | last = Scrivener | first = Frederick Henry Ambrose | author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |author2=Edward Miller | title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1894 | location = London | edition = 4 | page = 224 | volume = 1 }}</ref>

== Text ==

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K<sup>x</sup>.<ref name = Wisse/> Aland placed it in Category V.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland | last2 = Aland | first2 = Barbara | author-link2 = Barbara Aland | others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) | title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1995 | location = Grand Rapids | page = 138 | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref>

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family K<sup>x</sup> in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. It belongs to the cluster 1193.<ref name = Wisse>{{Cite book | last = Wisse | first = Frederik | title = The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1982 | location = Grand Rapids | page = [https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/57 57] | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/57 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration }}</ref>

It contains remarkable readings.<ref name = Gregory/>

== History ==

Formerly the manuscript was held at the Philotheou monastery at Athos peninsula.<ref name = Gregory>{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = J.C. Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 172 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n185/mode/2up }}</ref> It was brought to Moscow, by the monk Arsenius, on the suggestion of the Patriarch Nikon, in the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov (1645-1676). The manuscript was collated by C. F. Matthaei.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Scrivener | first = Frederick Henry Ambrose | author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |author2=Edward Miller | title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1894 | location = London | edition = 4 | page = 223 | volume = 1 }}</ref>

The manuscript is currently housed at the State Historical Museum (V. 17, S. 400) at Moscow.<ref name = Aland/>

== See also ==

* List of New Testament minuscules * Biblical manuscript * Textual criticism

== References ==

{{Reflist}}

== Further reading ==

* C. F. Matthaei, ''Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine'', (Riga, 1782-1788). (as q) * C. F. Matthaei, ''D. Pavli Epistolae ad Thessalonicenses et Ad Timotheum Graece et Latine'' (1782-1785), p.&nbsp;255 * Kurt Treu, ''Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan'', T & U 90 (Berlin, 1966), pp.&nbsp;244–246

== External links == * {{Cite web|url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php|title=Liste Handschriften|publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research|access-date=7 March 2011|location=Münster}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0247}} Category:Greek New Testament minuscules Category:12th-century biblical manuscripts